[arch-general] pacman & sudo

[Xavier]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Alessandro Doro <ordo.ad at gmail.com> wrote:
> And not only for security reasons; If you have time have a look at
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14926
> in that case the permission problems affected the system directories.
>
> And times ago there where permission (umask) issues with users calling
> pacman with sudo.
>

There is no problem calling pacman with sudo, I do that all the time.

I think what you are referring to was a problem with non-standard
umask, which has been fixed in pacman :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12263

If you used pacman as root with non-standard umask, you would have had
exactly the same problem.